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Ayelet Koplon, Lipaz Hirsch, Dafna Katz, Stuart Katz (in red sweatshirt), Brad Eckman, Yoni Wolf and Rami Lesnick participating in a cleanup at Arverne, a neighborhood on the hard-hit Rockaway Peninsula in New York.

Israeli teens help sop up Sandy

Six weeks later, there’s still much to do.

By  | December 10, 2012
sraeli residents take shelter against incoming rockets after a warning siren in Nitzan. Photo by Flash90.
A New Reality,Life,War

Cloudy with a chance of missiles

For the past year or two, missiles have come raining down on southern Israel every few months. Somehow, as the pundits endlessly talked it out on different evening news programs, this became an acceptable situation, as unavoidable as bad weather.

Iron Dome system intercepts missiles – but not in Jerusalem ChameleonsEye / Shutterstock.com
A New Reality,Life,War

First siren

When I was growing up in California, I had a terrible fear of being caught in the shower when an earthquake hit. What would I do, stressed my pre-teen self; would I run out into the street stark naked in order to save myself?

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